January 3, 2015

What was it like on a snowy day in Pound Ridge in the 1930s?

In Pat Marshall Bartram's story, "Barrels of Oil and Blocks of Ice" -- on page 40 of POUND RIDGE PAST: Remembrances of Our Townsfolk -- she recalls, "In wintertime ... the big boys would clean off a
section of the back side of the frozen lake [across
from Marshall Oil on Salem Road], drive their cars onto the ice, turn on the radio and ice skate. We used to have real cold winters back then."

She goes on to talk about her parents being "air wardens" during World War II.

"Aunt Amy and my mother used to go to the fire tower in New Canaan (Conn.) to spot planes and call them in. Daddy was an air warden, too. He and this group would drive around all the roads and if your house lights were on, they'd blow their horn for you to turn them off. We knew we had to turn out our lights because it might be an air raid. We weren't afraid that the Germans might attack, though, because our parents made us feel safe in Pound Ridge."

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Bonni Brodnick is author of "POUND RIDGE PAST" and muses about life at "Bonni Brodnick Blog: A Blurb-ologist's Perspective" An award-winning communications specialist and writer, Bonni has been a HuffPost contributor since 2012, has written for Glamour, and House & Garden magazines, The Los Angeles Herald Examiner Sunday magazine, Bedford Magazine, Greenwich Magazine, and Children's Television Workshop. She is a former member of Writers Guild of America, East. Bonni has appeared on TV: ABC-TV "Good Morning America"; WNBC-TV "Live at Five"; and WCVB-TV [an ABC affiliate] "Good Morning Boston". She founded/wrote a weekly newspaper column, "Talk of the Town," for Bedford-Pound Ridge (N.Y.) Record-Review. Most importantly, she is a really fast typer.